What do you think? Can you figure these riddles out? Each represents something. I wrote them and gathered these particular pieces. These distinct ones are rather dark and/or cold. They don’t represent people except partially one.

<-.-> Death is life’s beginning, wanting to run astray, attempting to hold life’s breath, yet life says nay, ye cannot hold life back, for death has no power, he will rise again, to be overtaken, yet again. <-.->

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<-.-> The past is like a ghost’s voice, quite and withered away, unknown and unheard, loneliness like pale streams. <-.->

Yeah, I think those riddles are much too difficult. ^^; I can't even figure out how the second one relates to the human soul, and the first and third seem too vague.

I also think part of the problem is that the riddles are written in a way that's somewhat hard to absorb. Lots of short, rapid, unrelated thoughts. I think elegant riddles tend to be short and simple. Probably the canonical example of a great riddle is, "What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?" (The answer, as probably most of you know, is

Spoiler:

a person: as an infant, as an adult, and as an old man/woman who needs a cane

.)

The last one in your list seems to be a pretty good riddle, though, except that I can't find a question in it, implied or otherwise. You can't add "What am I?" to the end, for example, because there's no "I" in your riddle to identify. It seems to make a statement of its own without posing a question.

I wrote them to be very complicated. ";^P- I will take what you said in mind for the next ones I write. I might post an animated version of these riddles here eventually. That'll really make them come to light. The only problem is the material would probably be rated R and I'd have to get permission from Clay to display them. Don't look for me to do it anytime soon since I'm busy with a lot of other things. lol

<-.-> The past is like a ghost’s voice, quite and withered away, unknown and unheard, loneliness like pale streams. <-.->

Even after reading your answers, the riddles make little if any sense.. I'm in Furrykef's camp. You either need to be more clear with your descriptions or you need to have a better set up for your riddles, the other thing is that there are a few grammatical errors, Mike and I pointed out 2..

Watch your 'person', in otherwords, watch that you don't change the verbs mid sentence from 1st person to 3rd person.. It has to remain constant..

furrykef wrote:Probably the canonical example of a great riddle is, "What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?" (The answer, as probably most of you know, is

Spoiler:

a person: as an infant, as an adult, and as an old man/woman who needs a cane

.)

I think the Joker or some other fictional character had a different answer for this question that had me laughing, but now I forgot who it was and what the answer was. But either way, this makes me think of 2 riddles I like even more.